I thought it would be best if I broke my recent silence. I’ve not abandoned this blog, not even by a long shot. I got a couple of weeks of from work and I’ve been spending it with my family and I also started working on a MEF project that (modestly speaking) has grown quite a bit and it keeps surprising me each day with even more growth.

I’ve developing a custom model for MEF, primarily to give me a rock solid understanding of how MEF operates under the hood and believe me I’ve probably seen every single line of code in MEF at least 100 times by now.

It’s a challenge but fortunately I’ve been blessed with the ability to talk to Glenn Block, program manager of the MEF team, a couple of times and we’ve even done a couple of pairing sessions where I showed him my work and he offered some very valuable feedback and suggestions.

The idea is to place the final product in the MEFContrib project and also write a blog series on the how it was done and what hurdles that had to be done. The good thing is that I’m trying to do this in a generic fashion so others can save themselves the trouble and just build on top (or along side) of my extension.

More to come on this in a not too distant future.